While on a recentHome, Strange Home shoot in Texas, author and musician Lyle Blackburn gave the crew a tour of his gigantic collection of monster memorabilia. While he does have a specific room dedicated to things that go bump in the night, his entire house is decorated in monster style.

Lyle’s lifelong love of the spooky stuff has even expanded from movie monsters to ones that might actually exist. As a cryptozoologist – one who searches for unknown animals such as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster – Lyle’s delved into the dark woods in search of mysterious beasts, such as the Fouke Monster of Arkansas. While the crew didn’t have any sightings of mysterious creatures on location, we did have a monstrously good shoot at Lyle’s place.